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NEW EDITION
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practices!
Contents
- About The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition
- Features
- New Content
- Online Forms
About The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition
How can you support both colleagues and families as they enhance their knowledge, develop new skills, and promote healthy development of young children? Coaching is the key—and the new edition of this bestselling guide is packed with even more practical tools to help early childhood professionals conduct skillful coaching in homes, schools, and communities. Like the popular first edition, this book walks you step-by-step through the five characteristics of successful coaching practices:
- observation
- reflection
- joint planning
- action
- feedback
Features
About the Features
The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition includes a variety of features designed to enhance reader understanding.
Examples include:
- Embedded opportunities to reflect, observe, and practice
- Terminology definitions
- Coaching scripts and scenarios
- Sample completed forms and routine
- Chapter conclusions and routine
- References and routine
Terminology Definitions
Each chapter contains Chapter 1 defines more multiple than a dozen important terms and explains these terms in the context of The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition.
Coaching Scripts and Scenarios
Each chapter contains Coaching scripts and multiple scenarios are woven into chapters to illustrate and provide examples for how individual characteristics or elements of the practices described might look when implemented.
Embedded Opportunities to Reflect
Each chapter contains Opportunities for reflection multiple include thinking about current or future practices and applying or using the information learned to build on one’s own current knowledge and skills.
Embedded Opportunities to Observe
Each chapter contains Observations opportunities multiple provide a time to observe one’s own practices or the practices of others regarding a specific characteristic or element of coaching.
Embedded Opportunities to Practice
Each chapter contains Practice opportunities in each multiple chapter include ideas for how to put information into action by applying what is being learned to a real-life context.
Remember Notations
Each chapter contains Remember notations within each multiple chapter contain important elements of coaching practices that are necessary for adding to or building one’s own conceptual and operational frameworks for coaching.
Chapter Conclusions
Each chapter concludes with a summary to highlight key concepts from the text.
Figures and Tables
Tables and figures reinforce important concepts and provide ways to more easily understand the material.
Sample Completed Forms
Embedded examples walk readers through how to complete the included forms. Fillable PDF forms are available online to purchasers of the book.
References
The References section includes review articles, research findings, and other key references that can be used to find more information.
Coaching Scenario Matrix
The Coaching Scenario Matrix provides a comprehensive listing of all case examples, including type, topic, context, child characteristics, coachee, coach, and page numbers.
New Content
About the Content
In the new edition, you’ll find the following:
- More scripts and scenarios that show what coaching looks and sounds like in the real world
- A Coaching Scenario Matrix to help you find relevant examples in seconds
- New chapter on coaching for early intervention service coordinators
- More guidance on coaching throughout the IFSP process
About the Content
New examples that address common coaching challenges
- Expanded guidance on the process of coaching coaches
- Answers to key questions from the authors' popular training sessions
- Practical forms now available as fillable PDFs for download
- Updated research on the effectiveness of coaching
Online Forms
About the Forms
The blank forms included in the appendices are widely used for professional and educational purposes. These forms are now available as fillable PDFs, accessible online to purchasers of the second edition of The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook.
- Coaching Plan
- Coaching Practices Rating Scale
- Framework for Reflective Questioning
- Coaching Log
Coaching Plan
Used to develop the initial coaching plan and the action plans for achieving desired outcomes
Framework for Reflective Questioning
Helps coaches evaluate the entire coaching process, recognizing what worked and what could be done differently next time
Coaching Practices Rating Scale
Determines how well a practitioner is using coaching practices with families or colleagues
Coaching Log
Helps coaches record and critically analyze a coaching conversation
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